Most Sicilian dialects share a typical syntactic construction which features three elements: 1)
a verb taken from a restricted class of motion verbs; 2) the connecting element a; 3) an
inflected lexical verb. This work aims at exploring the behaviour of this construction as used
in the dialect spoken in Delia, a small centre in the province of Caltanissetta, as well as in
some other Sicilian dialects. I will start from a detailed description of the cases in which the
examined structure can occur, providing some remarks on related phonological …